Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Like every illusion, fiction is one of the innumerable parts of reality.

Those who read only books that only entertain them have no significant advantage over those who can but do not read.

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

Useful information badly written is way more valuable than useless information well written.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.